{"id":41761,"date":"2025-12-02T10:56:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T08:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/loutro-paralia-kotsikias\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T10:56:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T08:56:40","slug":"loutro-paralia-kotsikias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/loutro-paralia-kotsikias\/","title":{"rendered":"Loutro (Paralia Kotsikias)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"464\" src=\"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/loutro.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41757\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/loutro.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/loutro-300x116.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/loutro-1024x396.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/loutro-150x58.jpg 150w, https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/loutro-768x297.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p><sub>Loutro bay (Paralia Kotsikias)<\/sub><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:41px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Loutro bay (Paralia Kotsikias) is one of those quiet North Evia shorelines that feel wonderfully detached from the world. A small sweep of Aegean beach, houses scattered among tamarisks, and a horizon that seems to dissolve into blue.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Pappades<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<p><strong>Pappades <\/strong>is a nearby village, perched high at about 400 metres. The village sits like a balcony over the Aegean. Even in summer, the air feels cooler here, and in winter it is one of the first places in Evia to disappear under snow. You walk its narrow lanes, drink coffee with a view that falls dramatically to the sea you just left behind, and understand why people call it the \u201cwhite-veil village\u201d when winter storms arrive.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:38px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Kerasia<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<p>Another short ride uphill takes you to <strong>Kerasia<\/strong>, a village of traditions and folklore, known for lively customs like the \u201ccamel\u201d procession and the \u201cpepper\u201d carnival ritual. But the real reason travellers are drawn here is something far older, older even than human history: the <strong>Petrified Forest of Kerasia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Spreading across the ridge of <strong>Psil\u00ed R\u00e1chi<\/strong>, the forest is a surreal landscape of <strong>petrified tree trunks<\/strong> lying half-buried among bushes, geological ghosts from a world that existed 10\u201320 million years ago. Here, the ground has revealed a Miocene ecosystem of rare trees \u2014 including the famed \u201cEvian oak\u201d \u2014 but also a fossil menagerie of rhinoceroses, sabre-tooth cats, early horses, primates, hyenas, gazelles, giraffids. <\/p>\n\n<p>The small <strong>Museum of Fossil Mammals in Kerasia<\/strong> brings this vanished world alive with excavated bones, jaws, skulls, and reconstructions. Since 2022, systematic excavations and a major development project aim to create a proper <strong>petrified forest park<\/strong> with paths, signage and a branch museum. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loutro bay (Paralia Kotsikias) Loutro bay (Paralia Kotsikias) is one of those quiet North Evia shorelines that feel wonderfully detached from the world. A small sweep of Aegean beach, houses scattered among tamarisks, and a horizon that seems to dissolve into blue. Pappades Pappades is a nearby village, perched high at about 400 metres. 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